IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks

If you’ve been on the wrong end of what passes for a modern-day DDoS attack, you’re well familiar with the firepower of the almighty DVR. That’s right, the innocuous set-top box responsible for the posterity of your Game of Thrones seasons 1-6 is behind some of the biggest swarming attacks agains...

Source Code Released for Mirai DDoS Malware

The dangers of haphazardly connecting embedded devices to the Internet have manifested themselves in mammoth distributed denial-of-service attacks, in particular one two weeks ago against security journalist Brian Krebs’ website that peaked at better than 620 Gbps. The situation worsened over the...

Trend Micro Internet Security Security Bypass Vulnerability

Trend Micro Internet Security is a set of Trend Micro Trend Micro integrated with personal firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam and other features in one network security software. A security bypass vulnerability exists in versions 8 and 10 of Trend Micro Internet Security, which could be exploited by...

Trend Micro Internet Security vulnerability where files may be excluded as scan targets

Overview Trend Micro Internet Security provided by Trend Micro Incorporated contains a vulnerability where arbitrary files or folders may be excluded as scan targets when the conditions below are met. An attacker can place a specific file into the system The attacker can execute a specific API fr...

JVN#98126322: Trend Micro Internet Security vulnerability where files may be excluded as scan targets

Trend Micro Internet Security provided by Trend Micro Incorporated contains a vulnerability where arbitrary files or folders may be excluded as scan targets when the conditions below are met. An attacker can place a specific file into the system The attacker can execute a specific API from the...

Kaspersky Internet Security Denial of Service Vulnerability

Kaspersky Internet Security KIS, Kaspersky Security Software is a set of security software developed by Russia's Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Lab with both antivirus and firewall functions. There are security vulnerabilities in KIS. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability with a specially...

Breaching a CA – Blind Cross-site Scripting (BXSS) in the GeoTrust SSL Operations Panel Using XSS Hunter

This is a continuation of a series of blog posts which will cover blind cross-site scripting XSS and its impact on the internal systems which suffer from it. Previously, we’ve shown that data entered into one part of a website, such as the account information panel, can lead to XSS on internal...

Multiple Kaspersky Products Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Kaspersky Internet Security is a suite of security software that combines antivirus and firewall functionality.Kaspersky Antivirus and Total Security are both antivirus programs from Kaspersky Labs. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in several Kaspersky products, which could be...

Local Denial of Service Vulnerability in Multiple Kaspersky Products

Kaspersky Internet Security is a suite of security software that combines the functions of an antivirus and a firewall.Kaspersky Antivirus/Total Security is an antivirus program from Kaspersky Labs. A local denial of service vulnerability exists in several Kaspersky products, which could be...

Kaspersky Internet Security KLDISK Driver Multiple Kernel Memory Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Summary Multiple information leaks exist in various IOCTL handlers of the Kaspersky Internet Security KLDISK driver. Specially crafted IOCTL requests can cause the driver to return out of bounds kernel memory, potentially leaking sensitive information such as privileged tokens or kernel memory...

Kaspersky Internet Security KL1 Driver Signal Handler Denial of Service

Summary A denial of service vulnerability exists in the IOCTL handling functionality of Kaspersky Internet Security KL1 driver. A specially crafted IOCTL signal can cause an access violation in KL1 kernel driver resulting in local system denial of service. An attacker can run a program from user...

Kaspersky Internet Security KLIF Driver NtAdjustTokenPrivileges_HANDLER Denial of Service

Summary A denial of service vulnerability exists in the syscall filtering functionality of Kaspersky Internet Security KLIF driver. A specially crafted native api call can cause a access violation in KLIF kernel driver resulting in local denial of service. An attacker can run program from user mo...

Kaspersky Internet Security KLIF Driver NtUserCreateWindowEx_HANDLER Denial of Service

Summary A denial of service vulnerability exists in the syscall filtering functionality of the Kaspersky Internet Security KLIF driver. A specially crafted native api call request can cause a access violation exception in KLIF kernel driver resulting in local denial of service. An attacker can ru...

AVG Internet Security Local Privilege Vulnerability

AVG Internet Security is a suite of Internet security software from the Czech company AVG. The program supports instant detection of any accessed files, protection of the computer from viruses, scanning of e-mail and attached files, and other features. A local exploit exists in AVG Internet...

AVG Internet Security avgtdix.sys Kernel Driver Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of AVG Internet Security. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within processing of...

AVG Internet Security avgtdix.sys Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

AVG Internet Security is anti-virus protection software. AVG Internet Security is implemented with a local elevation of privilege vulnerability in the handling of 0x534a600c IOCTL within the avgtdix driver and 0x53606148 IOCTL within the avgidsdriverx driver. An attacker can exploit this...

AVG Internet Security avgtdix.sys Kernel Memory Corruption Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of AVG Internet Security. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within processing of...

AVG Internet Security avgidsdriverx.sys Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of AVG Internet Security. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within processing of...

Trend Micro Internet Security Multiple Vulnerabilities

Trend Micro Internet Security is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Never Trust a Found USB Drive, Black Hat Demo Shows Why

Does dropping an infected USB drive in a parking lot work when it comes to a hacker luring its prey into a digital trap? The answer is a resounding yes. At Black Hat USA, security researcher Elie Bursztein shared the results of an experiment where he dropped 297 USB drives with phone-home...